Efficient stabilization of cyanonaphthalene by fast radiative cooling and implications for the resilience of small PAHs in interstellar clouds

MH Stockett, JN Bull, H Cederquist, S Indrajith… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
After decades of searching, astronomers have recently identified specific Polycyclic Aromatic
Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in space. Remarkably, the observed abundance of cyanonaphthalene …

Radiative cooling of size-selected gas phase clusters

P Ferrari, E Janssens, P Lievens… - International Reviews in …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Predicted almost forty years ago, the radiation from thermally populated excited electronic
states has recently been recognised as an important cooling mechanism in free molecules …

Extended red emission: Observational constraints for models

AN Witt, TSY Lai - Astrophysics and Space Science, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Extended Red Emission (ERE) is a widely observed optical emission process,
present in a wide range of circumstellar and interstellar environments in the Milky Way …

Detection of recurrent fluorescence photons

Y Ebara, T Furukawa, J Matsumoto, H Tanuma… - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
We have detected visible photons emitted from the thermally populated electronic excited
state, namely recurrent fluorescence (RF), of C 6-stored in an electrostatic ion storage ring …

Unimolecular fragmentation and radiative cooling of isolated PAH ions: A quantitative study

MH Stockett, JN Bull, JT Buntine… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Time-resolved spontaneous and laser-induced unimolecular fragmentation of perylene
cations (C 20 H 12+) has been measured on timescales up to 2 s in a cryogenic electrostatic …

Thermal radiative cooling of carbon cluster cations CN+, N = 9, 11, 12, 17–27

S Iida, W Hu, R Zhang, P Ferrari… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The radiative cooling rates of C clusters (N= 9, 11, 12, 17–27) have been measured in the
ultrahigh vacuum of an electrostatic storage ring to values on the order of 104 s− 1. The …

Determination of Absolute Recurrent Fluorescence Rate Coefficients for C6

V Chandrasekaran, B Kafle… - The Journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
We determined absolute rate coefficients for the recurrent fluorescence (RF) process in C6–
anions at excitation energies above the adiabatic electron attachment energy of 4.18 eV …

Radiative relaxation in isolated large carbon clusters: Vibrational emission versus recurrent fluorescence

O Lacinbala, F Calvo, C Dubosq, C Falvo… - The Journal of …, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Recurrent fluorescence (RF) from isolated carbon clusters containing between 24 and 60
atoms is theoretically investigated as a function of internal energy, cluster size, and structural …

IR-photon quenching of delayed electron detachment from hot pentacene anions

S Iida, S Kuma, M Kuriyama, T Furukawa, M Kusunoki… - Physical Review A, 2021 - APS
Spontaneous and photoinduced delayed electron detachment from pentacene anions was
measured in the electrostatic ion storage ring TMU E-ring. The dissipation mechanisms of …

Radiative cooling of carbon cluster anions C2n+1 (n = 3–5)

MH Stockett, JN Bull, JT Buntine, E Carrascosa… - The European Physical …, 2020 - Springer
Radiative cooling of carbon cluster anions C 2n+ 1−(n= 3–5) is investigated using the
cryogenic electrostatic ion storage ring DESIREE. Two different strategies are applied to …